Lulu? That seems...odd. I mean, fine to go by for your friends, but professionally, especially when you're already known by Lourdes?

A former coworker just invited me to visit her in Wilmington, and I was thinking of how to get there...and realized I was still thinking of Flea and Smonster as being in North Carolina. Which they have not been for years and years, and I've *visited* them in other places, and still...apparently y'all are fixed in my mind in the first place I knew you, and also probably as 15 years younger.

Cool, 2002 me was in good shape!

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro is now calling herself Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Her fellow NPR people have always called her "Lulu" when speaking to her in stories so it doesn't seem weird to me.

I trained 2 of my doctors yesterday. The first one has a picture of himself with Trump at some Palm Beach event taped on the door to his office. He normally has Fox News playing on the wall mounted tv in his office, but I arrived before he did so it wasn't on yet. As with our prior meetings I never glanced in the direction of his door or mentioned anything. The second doc was bemoaning the fact that universal healthcare wouldn't happen in his lifetime because insurance companies are too greedy. I didn't bother to hide the Hillary sticker I have on the back of my phone case with him because he has been really open about his lefty leaning in the past. I would say 75% of my customer doctors are Republicans, but I am super proficient at answering questions in a non political manner. Now if they ask straight out I am not going to lie, and when they blame all the electronic medical records stuff on Obama I do remind them it was Bush. But when a customer has a smiley face picture of him and The Donald taped to his door I know how to stay far far away from chit chat.

Meanwhile, may I present our PM & family at Vancouver Pride [link], or randomly hiking in Quebec

I read that as PMM (a couple of times, actually, as I saw it yesterday and marked it to go back to dlater and then really did go back to it) and was bewildered when I clicked the link.

peaches from the farmer's market. fuck yeah peaches.

Somebody brought in peaches from, I assume, their tree (I don't know who brought them, there was just a bag full on the counter). I concur with your conclusion.

Timelies all!

The little guy is taking great delight in hitting the top of the DVR. When he started pulling it towards him, I moved him. Silly destructo-baby.

Wasn't somebody (Jesse maybe?) looking for a wheelie personal shopping cart thingy? If so:

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Are statements labeled "friendly reminders" ever actually friendly? It doesn't seem like it.

Sort of the "Not to be offensive, but..." school of qualifiers.

Are statements labeled "friendly reminders" ever actually friendly? It doesn't seem like it.

I'm Friendly Remindering people this week and it's definitely closer to fury than friendly.